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To: the subscribers
From: The Roger’s website helper
Hello. I’ve finally received some news about Roger. He’s had health issues again, and is being treated for them. The news is that he is in good spirits. I expect you will soon hear more about it from the man himself.
Meanwhile, we can send healing vibrations his way and wish him a speedy recovery.
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Mar 24, 2023
- ♫ Scarborough Fair – Rachel Hardy
- Putin and Xi Standing Firm on the Right Side of History, by Finian Cunningham
- US Officials Really, REALLY Want You To Know The US Is The World’s “Leader,” by Caitlin Johnstone
- MoA: The ‘Junior Partner’ Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes
- Global experts reject weaponizing democracy; no single pattern fits all countries, by Liu Xin and Wang Wenwen
- Russia Fast Progress Avdeevka, Advances Bakhmut, UK MoD Admits Russia Progress Kupiansk (Mercouris Podcast)
- Media Pushes Latest “Disinformation Industry” Fraud, Plus: Amy Wax & Norman Finkelstein on the Limits of Academic Freedom, by Glenn Greenwald
- How the USSR’s Fall Unleashed a Neocon Goldrush to the Heartland, by Simplicius
- Douglas Macgregor – ISR Strike Zone: A Fire Trap for Ukrainian Troops (Video)
- Discussing the Xi visit to Moscow with Norway’s Glenn Diesen, by Gilbert Doctorow (Video)
- ICC Arrest Warrant Issued to Putin is Hypocritical Propaganda Stunt, by Sonja Van den Ende
- Why Are Conservatives So Stupid? by A.J. Smuskiewicz
- Stop the War, stop sending arms to Ukraine – An appeal from Brussels
- Incompetent Federal Reserve Goofs Again, by Paul Craig Roberts
- Banking crisis groundhog day, how we keep getting to here, by el gato malo
- RT Crosstalk: What Xi’s Meeting with Putin Means for the World, w/Matthew Ehret (Video)
- How the close partnership with China is changing Russia’s domestic politics, by Gilbert Doctorow
- Ukraine War Day #393: Ukrainian Role In Khatyn, by yalensis
- Iran and Uzbekistan Unveil Central Asia’s Plan B, by James Durso
- Ending the covid debate for good: The results are in on lockdowns, masks, and vaccines, by Chris Waldburger
- The WHO’s Proposals for Future Pandemics Are Almost Everything Bill Gates Demanded, by Eugyppius
- When Will They Ever Learn? To all my friends in the resistance, by Thorsteinn Siglaugsson
- Florida Health Department Challenges FDA, CDC, and Pfizer Over Covid “Vaccines,” by Rav Arora
- Excess Mortality News Supports the “Geert Variant” Theory, by Igor Chudov
- COVID Made McDonald’s a Public Health Savior, by Dr. Joseph Mercola
- What is the State Dept Hiding from the Senate? by John Leake
- Understanding What’s Happening in France: The kinetic phase may come next, by Aurelien
- BP extracted Iraqi oil worth £15bn after British invasion, by Matt Kennard
- The U.S. establishment’s fever to smash Iraq must not be forgotten, by Philip Weiss
- Jewish radicals attack Jerusalem’s Church of Gethsemane during Sunday’s worship, by Jeff Wright
- Putin Announces Agreement for the Yuan to Become the New Global Reserve Currency, by Andrew Anglin
- EPA Forcing Ohio Toxic Waste On Facilities Not Able To Process Dioxins/PFAS – Ryan Cristián, Video
- Chris Hedges Podcast with Katherine Corcoran on How Mexico’s Epidemic of Murdered Journalists (Audio)
- Kevin Barrett: Human Rights Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith on Guantanamo Prisoners, Aafia Siddiqui..
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The Overview: An all-encompassing Axiom
I used to develop databases in Filemaker, an Apple software product – so easy that it was often the Administrative Assistant who created the organization’s database(s). Except for enormous transactional systems, like those handling the ATMs of large banks, Filemaker was a far better choice, for many reasons, than the clumsy, dysfunctional piece of junk called Oracle, for a tiny fraction of the cost. I bring this up because this is one of innumerable examples of the innate corruption of the Imperialist/Capitalist system, where profit predictably trumps common sense, not to mention simple human decency. Oracle, like Microsoft and many others, had only one kind of expertise – Sales and Marketing. They spent billions on paying top programmers to overcome the deficiencies of their initial products. Then they made many more billions after pretty much cornering the market.
In database theory, one starts with a root directory (aka a folder) and follows with a set of sub-directories. It’s a method that was pioneered in the 18th Century by Carl Linnaeus, also known as the “father of modern taxonomy”. The number of items in the lowest level sub-directories can be very large. It’s the content, aka the data.
Our mother website, ‘Situation Report: The World,’ like pretty much everything else in the digital world, is a database, or part of one. The content is the data, in this case a collection of items – writings, images, video and audio that each reflects a view, or views, of whatever the hell is going on in this crazy world, or some take on how we got here or where we’re going. Collectively, they are “A Chronicle of the Decline and Fall of the Western Empire.”
That sub-title is an adequate term but now I’d like to introduce a name for the root directory , “The Overview.” In this first proper blog entry, I’m going to elaborate on that a bit. Think of a good vantage point from which to see the whole field, like the most expensive seats from which to watch professional football. They’re high up and unobstructed. Or the top of a mountain, from where you can see all below. That’s what I mean by overview. Sorry if all this seems too simplistic – I’m just trying to make sure that everybody’s on board.
A couple of years ago I came up with a term to describe an overview of this time in history. I doubt very much that I was the first to do so. Recently, it has suddenly popped up all over the place. A couple of weeks ago, the redoubtable Vladimir Putin himself used it. It is “a geopolitical tectonic shift,” henceforth GpTS. A lovely simile – particularly apt is what’s occurring along the San Andreas Fault. The Eastern plate is encroaching on the Western one. Note that even among today’s crop of opportunistic $cientists, no one claims that there might be a technological solution. The West is sinking and the East is rising – it is an inexorable process.
Everything that has been happening for at least the last 75 years can only be fully understood in that context. Otherwise, how could we even begin to understand the criminal insanity, or the descent into fascism, of the flagship – the USA – or that of the Eurolemmings and the rest of the “rules-based order” crowd, who blindly and obediently follow the batshit crazy Pied Piper.
We can debate the beginning of the era that is now coming to an end. I opt for the sudden maritime explosion of the Europeans about 500 years ago, all around the world, where a sense of cultural, religious and racial superiority, along with the most advanced technology, made it possible for them to colonize most of it. Thus it has been for millennia. The upstart empire gets more and more arrogant and smug, with corruption and factional rivalry bleeding away their power, while those who were overrun start putting themselves back together and forming strong alliances. And so it goes..
In further posts I’m going to drill down to the sub-directories level, covering how that inexorable process, the GpTS, has been manifesting itself as the new multipolar world begins to take shape. In the meantime, stay tuned to the action via SitRepWorld. It’s something else, living in interesting times, ain’t it?..
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